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Evolution
Evolution: the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. Repeated formation of new species, change within species, and loss of species throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological "tree of life" based on evolutionary relationships, using both existing species and fossils.
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MAY 25, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The words “molecular biology” might sound intimidating to most, but it’s not quite as bad as you think
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 23, 2022
Health & Medicine
Since the onset of the pandemic, researchers and clinicians have been trying to determine why COVID-19 is more severe in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 21, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Geneticists have sought to understand the impact of genetic mutations, and what drives and maintains changes in DNA.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 20, 2022
Health & Medicine
In previous studies in Israel, vaccine-induced COVID immunity was reported to decrease as early as three
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAY 11, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Finding another Earth sitting among the vast cosmos has reached a fever pitch, as NASA recently confirmed the existence
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 09, 2022
Health & Medicine
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests multiple areas in the brain's frontal
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAY 01, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Two new studies have revealed more about a bacterial pathogen that can infect the gut, clostridium difficile. There are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 22, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Prokaryotic cells, which include all bacteria and archaea, are ancient, and relatively simple compared to eukaryotic cel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2022
Microbiology
Despite the dire, well-documented risks of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which threatens to kill 10 million people a y
...
Sponsored By:
Thermo Fisher Scientific
APR 18, 2022
Microbiology
We've learned a lot about life that came before us by studying fossils. The ancestry and evolution of ancient microbial
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 04, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
About 1.5 million new HIV infections are thought to have occurred last year, and while COVID-19 has dominated concerns a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun – The Ringed Planet, as curious, young sky watchers might often ask, “
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 02, 2022
Microbiology
Typical viruses that we're familiar with need another organism to survive, and tend to have extremely small genomes. But
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our cells are full of little machines that perform certain critical functions, like ribosomes, which help generate prote
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2022
Earth & The Environment
A recent discovery within the coleiod cephalopod species has further pushed back its known origin by approximately 82 mi
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
MAR 31, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Asteroids might look like boring balls of rock, but these fossils often hold many clues about the evolution and formatio
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 22, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells use the genetic information contained in DNA to generate proteins, which carry out many of the processes of life.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 20, 2022
Plants & Animals
It’s generally believed that evolution is a gradual process that takes place over significant periods of time.&nbs
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
MAR 18, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In 1957, Soviets launched Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite ever sent to orbit, ushering in the beginning of the
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
MAR 10, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
In a first, researchers have found a gene in an animal that helps regulate genetics, but originally came from a bacteriu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 10, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 10, 2022
Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands recently published the first detection of dimethyl et
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
MAR 07, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society astronomers analyzed the light from ind
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 24, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
When we think of evolutionary changes, we tend to consider long stretches of time. But can evolution happen rapidly? The
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch